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Hartmut Michel
Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry 1988
Hartmut Michel received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 with Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber “for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.”
Photo credit: Shau Chung Shin, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics.
Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1988 with Johann Deisenhofer and Robert Huber “for the determination of the three-dimensional structure of a photosynthetic reaction centre.”
They were the first to unravel the complete picture of how a membrane protein is built up. Michel started the project and developed the technology to crystallise membrane proteins, an essential prerequisite for structure determination.
Michel received his PhD in 1977 at the University of Würzburg with work on light energy conversion by halobacteria. In 1979, he joined the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry.
In 1987, he became director at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics. Since August 2022, he is director emeritus.
His research interests include the protein complexes of cellular respiration and transporters.
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